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Property from a Private Mid-Atlantic Collection

A Queen Anne Bonnet-Top High Chest of Drawers, attributed to the Dunlap School, Southern New Hampshire, circa 1790

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

carved and figured maple 


height 86 ¼ in. by width 40 in. by depth 20 ½ in.

219.1 cm by 101.6 cm by 52.1 cm

Mrs. Sally Searls Mody, Peterboro, New Hampshire;

EJ Foster (grandson);

Adam A. Weschler & Son Auctioneers, Washington, D.C., Three Day Estate Auction, May 18-20, 1979, lot 1172.

A nearly identical high chest is illustrated in Charles S. Parsons, The Dunlaps & Their Furniture, (Manchester, NH: The Currier Gallery of Art, 1970), fig. 39.